Medicine: Lina & the Brain

In League of Nations days, scientists who visited Geneva knew her as a
plump, black-eyed Russian physiologist named Lina Stern. She loved to
putter in her laboratory all day and dance all night. A brilliant
scientist, Lina was already a full professor (of physiological
chemistry) at the University of Geneva. Friend of many a globe-trotting
academician, she spoke fluent Russian, French and English. In 1925,
fun-loving Physiologist Stern decided to go to Moscow, where, she
said, she could pursue science in "a society built on scientific
principles."